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Bay State’s Common Core Blues
A new study from the Pioneer Institute in Boston shows that in Massachusetts, Common Core, like the world, is with us late and soon. Unfortunately, it’s got all the world’s drawbacks and none of its benefits.
AAUP Assaults Science, National Security & Academic Freedom
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have issued a report on “National Security, the Assault on Science, and Academic Freedom” that might leave readers who have studied such matters scratching their heads.
Requiem for Charlottesville
Now, nearly five months after the fact, we know a lot more about what transpired before the Charlottesville face-off between the alt-right and alt left, thanks to a public records request from The Chronicle of Higher Education that netted the publication thousands of internal emails from UVA.
Penn State Sociologist Bashes Beef
If this doesn’t make a double quarter pounder with cheese look more attractive I don’t know what will.
Georgetown’s Middle East Bridge to Nowhere
Amid years of reports that Georgetown’s Middle East Studies program was being compromised by apologists for violent extremists, if not outright terrorists, the school has, if anything, doubled down on its approach.
Why Johnny Can’t Write, 2017
If you wonder why college graduates can’t write, you might take a look at what their composition teachers cogitate over.
Could Sexual Harassment Revelations Rock Academia?
It appears that the Ivory Tower is not immune as observers place bets on who will be the next big shot to fall in what could be called The Pig Pool.
Was Bin Laden Misunderstood Too?
A California State University professor seems to think one of his mentors was.
Norfolk School Disses Parent’s Rights
A concerned parent in Norfolk who got no response from her daughter’s school decided to send a recorder to school to determine whether the nine-year-old girl was being bullied. Now the mom faces legal pushback for exercising her parental rights.
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Public Schools The Chicago Way
The City of the Big Shoulders apparently has a few public school administrators who seem to need more elbow room.
Academic Search for Male Role Models
When academics look for male role models, you never know what they’re going to find.
Suing for Global Warming
At least one of the scientists sounding the global warming alarm may have found his way out of meticulous peer review: litigation.
Buena Vista U: Potentially Punishable Hate Speech
Perhaps students in need of legal advice should go off campus to find it.
Golden State’s Universities Have Reverse Midas Touch
Something called the College Futures Foundation thinks California’s state and other public universities need more money
Students Surprised By Loyola University Catholicism
Apparently, they didn’t read the fine print.
Good News On Climate Change
Some of the global warming alarmists are moving to France.
Bay State’s Common Core Blues
A new study from the Pioneer Institute in Boston shows that in Massachusetts, Common Core, like the world, is with us late and soon. Unfortunately, it’s got all the world’s drawbacks and none of its benefits.
Social Media Stains Nittany Lion Cubs
A pair of Penn State students are learning the hard way that social media makes it hard to grow up gracefully.
Climate Change Does Not =Wildfires
When academics do not jump on the bandwagon of favored academic theories, do not expect them to get much play in the media, or tenure at their universities, or, at least in previous administrations, grants from the federal government.
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Fact-Checking History’s First Draft
Journalism, the old cliché goes, is the first draft of history. Unfortunately, it rarely gets through rewrites before it hits the classroom. Yesterday’s headlines often look a bit silly when viewed through a microfiche, and…
Coming to a university near you
Before you find him on offer as a university speaker or course, you may want to read the meticulously documented story of Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn.
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